Subject: Re: [linux-audio-user] Linux and hardware samplers
From: Brian Redfern (bredfern_AT_calarts.edu)
Date: Sun Apr 20 2003 - 22:45:37 EEST
The new roland smaplers all have direct usb connections, but it depends
upon whether its just treated a a standard usb storage device, or whether
they use some proprietary driver system, I believe its the former. But I
do interact with a hardware sampler all the time, I use a usb zip drive to
open files from my asrx pro. I still do a lot of midi work, so I use
rosegarden to sequence my asrx and then make up samples with various
programs under linux and then dump them in aiff format onto a dos
formatted zip disk and then sneaker-net it to the scsi zip on my asrx.
For better integration I'd need to add a scsi card and then I could share
the scsi zip with the asrx, in my sampler's manual its goes over how to
setup the scsi terminators properly to share the scsi between the computer
and the sampler, and in that case you just mount the zip drive as a dos
drive and copy your aiff files over.
In terms of software like emagic sound diver, there isn't much in the way
of front ends for hardware, I'm working on learning enough C to write an
alsa/gtk app that can work like the sound diver front end for my
adrenalinn stomp box.
On Sat, 19 Apr 2003, tim wrote:
> > I want to get Linux and a hardware sampler talking to each other more
> > effectively. Specifically the following:
> [snip]
>
> well, it looks like no one has any good news for you!
>
> does it do spdif/aesebu backups/restores?
>
>
> > What about other options? I could get rid of the sampler altogether -
> > then to get the same number of outputs I'd need to upgrade my soundcard -
> > but anyway, what Linux software is there that could replace a hardware
> > sampler while probably retaining a sampler-like way of working?
>
> exactly.
>
>
> > Finally, I suppose I could upgrade the hardware sampler. I guess that
> > more modern hardware samplers integrate better with PCs in general. But
> > are their protocols and file formats any more open and therefore
> > potentially more inter-operable with Linux, or are you just as locked in
> > by proprietary formats and protocols as before?
>
> i dont spose they're much better, although i did see one with
> an ftp server inside :-)
>
> good luck!
>
> --
> Tim
>
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